President suggests that IDB to finance Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran railway construction
13:13, 8 June 2011
ASTANA. June 8. KAZINFORM /Kanat Kulshmanov/ President Nursultan Nazarbayev has suggested activating participation of the Islamic Development Bank in financing of construction of the railway Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Iran. The Head of State has offered this at the World Islamic Economic Forum in Astana today.
The President noted that presence of transport-communication and logistic schemes is an important condition of enhancement of trade-economic cooperation of the countries of the Islamic world. In this connection, Kazakhstan actively uses its geo-economic position, developing international transit corridor "Western China-Western Europe", constructing new railways.